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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...network dickered with Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner, producers of The Cosby Show and Roseanne, but negotiations fell through. Finally, late last week, the network completed a deal with Jeff Sagansky, 37, a former NBC program executive who heads Tri-Star Pictures, which produced this fall's hit movie Look Who's Talking...
...McGuane fans have stayed for the ride. "There are readers who abandoned me over the feeling that my writing has become relatively lusterless," he observes. "But your literary style is kind of like your face -- you can't do much to change it. I just hope that you can look at a shelf of my books and say, 'This is a 40-year struggle to understand the human race...
...ballad throbs to a climax, the two singers look at each other in a confession of mutual need, and the title line of mock-bragging devotion, You're Nothing Without Me, reverberates from the rafters. All in all, a classic first-act finale -- except that in this musical the characters who vow undying fidelity are a nerdy novelist turned screenwriter and the hard-boiled detective he has created on page and celluloid...
...Enough has happened that it warrants a look," says Congressman Bates. The San Diego hearing documented an unduly harsh, arbitrary management style. Witnesses told of the police being summoned to a San Diego suburb to settle one of the nearly daily disputes over the load in each carrier's bag. A study showed that 45% of the 837 carrier routes in San Diego require more than an eight-hour shift to complete. Taking time off for surgery or unapproved nose blowing is a punishable act. "There's a rule for everything," testified a San Diego shop steward. "If a supervisor...
With so many intractable problems facing the FDA, Sullivan's blue-ribbon panel is unlikely to be enough to stop the agency's decay. Says Democratic Congressman John Dingell, chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee: "It was an attempt to look like they were doing something, but they aren't and they won't." In an effort to find some creative financing for the FDA, the White House has disclosed that it is considering charging user fees to companies that seek FDA approval for products. The size of the proposed service charges has ranged from an official White...